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Flight of two cards. Focus Secret

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The performer opens the deck with a fan and offers to take a card, first to one spectator, then to another. He recommends looking at them carefully and remembering them (Fig. 70, A). He then asks the spectators to put these cards back into the deck, after which he carefully shuffles them.

The performer invites an assistant with a black silk scarf to the middle of the stage (Fig. 70, B). The magician counts: “One, two, three!” - and throws a deck of cards towards the assistant. The cards scattered across the stage, but two of them somehow ended up on the assistant’s black scarf (Fig. 70, B). It was these two cards that were taken out of the deck at the beginning of the trick demonstration and remembered by the audience.

Focus Flight of two cards
Fig. 70

Focus secret:

This trick requires a deck of cards, one half of which consists of aces of spades, the other of diamonds. In principle, you can take any cards, but there must be an equal number of them in the deck. As always, this secret deck of cards is placed on the illusion table in advance.

In addition to the prepared deck of cards, you also need a black scarf, which also contains a secret. The size of the scarf is 60x60 cm. It can be made of silk or satin, edged with fringe or cord. One half of the scarf is double. This secret half is cut out of the same fabric measuring 30X60 cm and attached with one large edge to the main scarf in the middle - along the center line. Two black buttons are sewn from the inside to the corners of the scarf and the secret half (Fig. 70, D).

An ace of diamonds is glued to the inside of the main scarf, and an ace of spades is glued to the inside of the secret half. The corners of the main scarf and the secret half are combined and fastened with buttons. The scarf is ready for display. The assistant goes on stage at the invitation of the performer, holding a scarf by the corners with buttons.

The performer takes a secret deck of cards from the table, first opens the top half with a fan and allows one of the spectators to draw a card from it. Then he folds it and opens it again with a fan, but this time the lower half and allows the card to be drawn out to another spectator. Thus, both spectators take cards known to the performer. Now the magician puts the cards in a deck, shuffles them and throws them into the air. The cards fly, and meanwhile the assistant unfastens the buttons on the scarf: the secret half falls, and the audience sees two cards spotted on the scarf.

The assistant's movement must be completely synchronous with the flight of the cards - the handkerchief cannot be opened either earlier or later. Everything should be carefully rehearsed - the success of the trick completely depends on this.

The second version of it is demonstrated as follows: the performer takes two cards chosen by the audience, and places the rest on the illusion table. Then he approaches the assistant and throws these two cards into the handkerchief, which until then had been folded in half by the assistant.

The assistant unfastens the buttons and releases only half of the main scarf. The other half and the secret half of the scarf remain in his hands.

Thus, the audience sees the secret cards on the open handkerchief, and the cards thrown by the performer are located between the secret and main halves of the handkerchief, which the assistant holds in his hands.

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